The Voyeur's Motel
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (564 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01DPRZMNY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 209 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. He had built an attic observation platform,” fitted with vents, through which he could peer down on his unwitting guests.Unsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the manGerald Foosverified his story in person, and read some of his extensive journals, a secret record of America’s changing social and sexual mores. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, Talese filed his reporting away, assuming the story would remain untold. Now, after thirty-five years, he’s ready to go public and Talese can finally tell his story. The Voyeur’s Motel is an extraordinary work of narrative journalism, at once a portrait of one complicated man, and an examination of secret lives and shifting mores in a culturally-evolving country.. Since lea
It might make you lose your bearings, but at the same time it’s completely mesmerising, and often darkly funny, too.”Daily Mail (UK) (Event Critics’ Best Books of the Year) “An eye-popping book Completely riveting from start to finish Darkly comical It is by turns fascinating and illuminating, very creepy and very funny, and will live in my memory long after many more doggedly accurate works have vanished into thin air.”Mail on Sunday (UK) “A riveting page-turner Short and brisk, it tells a compellingly sordid story, and Foos is one fascinating dude The book is compulsively readable.”Winnipeg Free Press. It’s a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not di
Amazing subject matter, disappointing presentation. Stahrr I pre-ordered this book after reading a lengthy, well-written article about it. The article fascinated me and my fiance so much we immediately pre-ordered and couldn't wait for it to be released. When we finally got it we both wanted to read it first.Unfortunately, the book itself was disappointing, and the article we had read was really just the best and most interesting bits presented in a streamlined fashion. The book, however, was all over the place. It dragged on in many places, like the author was trying to mak. enough to ruin some damn fine fantasies. In short BBH Gay Talese doesn't have a cold, but he is badly slipping. This is a book that never should have been written by a major author, let alone published by a major publishing house. It is well beneath Talese's previous works of narrative nonfiction. It is a story that held up at magazine length, but not at book length. It is a lazy use of the author's talents. He gives over at least one-third of the book (maybe more) to the ramblings from the journal of his voyeur subject, who is no Gay Talese when it comes to writing. Af. Don't waste your money Margaret's Dad If you read the New Yorker article, you already got 90% of the story. It's basically a repetitive version of that article with a few additional anecdotes sprinkled in. I was hoping for a more thorough exploration of Foos' psychology as well as some additional historical and social context, but they were nowhere to be found. Avoid.